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The basic plot was this: I played a vampire hunter, Abraham Van Helsing (the fifth) and I was asking my lovely fiancee, Elizabeth to go into the Hotel Sangre, wearing a revealing outfit. I wanted to use her as bait to lure one of the vampires there to bite her, breaking the Truce of the Council of Tears. The Council of Tears was one night, every ten years when the vampires would meet to discuss business. They could not embrace a mortal, nor could a hunter kill them. Unless the truce was broken...
Meeting at the hotel, was an odd assortment of every possible vampire imaginable...
The Grim Eurotrash Vampiress.
(played by Sayjal Joshi)
Her former lover and obsessed "Renfield" type, Charles...
(played by Matt Larsen)
The host of the evening was a 1000 year old poofty...
(played by Jamie Buell)
A young "Lost Boys" type vampire from the South Side of Chicago...
(played by J. Ben Parker)
And the 200 year old vampire, trapped-in-a-child's-body, vampiress...
(played by Chrissy Swinko)
Ben's Brother, a werewolf, was played by Erin Pallesen, but we didn't get any pics of him. (Sorry.)
My fiancee, Elizabeth, did her best to lure the vamps into biting her...
(played by Kathy Betts)
...but they were generally too interested in each other to pay any attention to her...
Eventually, I arrived in a "cunning disguise" to blend in with the vampire crowds...
..but they saw through my disguise and blood was shed...
...my blood, actually, Chrissy killed me and the vamps fed on me and then turned to kill my doomed fiancee, Elizabeth...
Despite, his total and complete lack of resistance and even his blatant begging, no vampire would embrace, Charles. What a loser.
All in all, it was a fantastic show! Both audiences were right there with us, through the whole thing. We laid out our exposition as quickly as we could and then we free-formed the rest of the show, sweep-editing to be onstage with the characters we wanted to be with. Eventually, things ended up in a bloodbath and the audience loved that. (Well, with pantomimed blood. We didn't want to ruin these sweet, sweet costumes.)
Our second show lasted right around 30 minutes without losing any steam. Which has given us the idea of trying a 30 - 45 minute holiday improv show. We're working on that right now.
So, yeah, that's what we did this year for Stingerween 2007!
Cheers,
Mr.B
1 comment:
Good God, you in that Count Chocula costume is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. The eye patch is the topper, I think.
Kyle looked over my shoulder at this posting just now and he can't stop repeating, "That's awesome! That's so awesome!"
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